Riyaz Patel
Limpopo municipalities are haemorrhaging cash as a result of them still paying suspended officials who were involved in decisions to invest in the now collapsed Venda Mutual Bank (VBS).
Parliament’s Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) said it’s concerned that these officials – mainly, municipal managers and chief financial officers – have already been found to have committed financial misconduct and are still being paid.
The Elias Motsoaledi Local Municipality, has, so far, forked out over
R900 000 to cover the salary of the suspended municipal manager, as well as paying the person currently serving as the acting municipal manager post.
To compound matters, the Committee said, is that the disciplinary process has been postponed indefinitely since 30 April 2019 with no clear timeline as to when the process will resume.
And it does not end there.
“What is particularly regrettable is that the R900 000 is
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